PC Magazine - USA (2020-11)

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erizon’s 5G Home service may be fast, but very few people can access

it—even in the eight cities Verizon purports to serve. Since the company

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than 400 Chicago and Minneapolis addresses through the Verizon 5G Home

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the mobile service does.

That’s not what I expected after I spoke to Verizon last month. On Oct. 1, the

company launched a new indoor home router that is supposed to have better

range than the tiny antennas in mobile phones. But looking at neighborhoods

on the North Side of Chicago and in Minneapolis, we found that not only does

the coverage not reach beyond what Verizon claims for phones, houses on

streets that Verizon purports to serve came back with “no coverage” for the

home service.

For Now, Verizon’s 5G Home Internet

Service Offers Very Little Coverage

BY SASCHA SEGAN

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